From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#74488: Why not modernize Emacs Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:52:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9039ab2e-e781-4d80-8aa0-f39e690f076a@me.com> <86ttbymo5e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30206"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 74488@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Raj Divecha Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 28 05:53:21 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tGWWm-0007hV-Rj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:53:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tGWWW-0006Vd-MD; 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For instance, Lisp still has the advantages it always had. Even if somene offered to rewrite all our existing Lisp code into Python, we still prefer Lisp. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)